Hello, Having to do some work in Python recently, I had to dig into WSGI and found that its model, much similar to what JSGI, PSGI, Rack do, seemed likely to bring a potentially high performance improvement on my usual (Drupal) environment. This also happened to match a remark done by Rasmus during his presentation in late August at Drupalcon CPH, in which he advised us to evolve Drupal towards a model with a long-term application process - PHP or not, apparently not in his idea (C ?) - to avoid the massive amount of time and effort currently spent on our per-page bootstrapping process, and return PHP userland code to the more "templating" parts of the CMS.
However, after digging around on the list archives and elswhere, I could find no trace of a discussion about an approach like this one. CGI/FCGI sure, FPM sure, but nothing like WSGI. The closest approximation appears to be the WPHP package, which does indeed embrace PHP within actual WSGI, but does so at the cost of a fork/exec per hit, definitely the opposite of the goal being looked for. Has there ever been such a discussion, if only to dismiss the prospect as incompatible with PHP/ZE ? Any pointers to more information would be appreciated. Frederic G. MARAND
